Efraim Siounis, Creator
It seems likes years ago. Well a little over two years ago to be exact. Yeash! Boy did I change a lot (for the better of course.) -but I digress.
It was one Cynthia Catel who brought Coolest People Ever to life. She was my best friend at the time and me being fresh off of a comic study being, I wanted a plot to work with! I started to draw comics for friends on folded scarp paper. Really crappy ones, no form no nothing! It was horrible.
Anyway- Cyn and I would talk a lot about about ridiculous things and one was a dream I had of her being kidnapped by ninjas and me saving her. Needless to say, she though I was weird- as most people at the time did. With a lack of social norms- I would go out of my way to do some things to show my appreciation to my friends. One such thing being- this comic.
This is were I reached a dilemma! I liked Cyn to much to give her chicken scratch, so I worked harder on this one, and it became the first of the ‘better’ ones. Not great, just better.
Now like it is said in the ‘Warning‘, this should not be considered as a valentine! Just an excuse to expand my creative and artistic talent and technique. Though, needless to say, the whole thing was an inside joke prepared for Cynthia herself and Cynthia alone.
Meh- oh well, some people read it and thought it was cool. One thing lead to another and now I have it on my site. I really never wanted it as a feature, though you can’t deny the hoards of screaming fans that Cyn has! (being the coolest and all) So I settled with what you see now.
written on: Thursday April 22, 2004
Cynthia Catel, Inspiration
I’ll have to get Cyn to write something for the B.T.S. I really doubt she ever will though. Being the coolest is a full time thing. Sorry. e* (10/22/04)
I don’t think she’s ever going to write anything.(15/2/07)
I started drawing CPE weeks before my first days in college back in 2002. It was the first organized comic I ever made. (unlike the archived ones) these had pace, plot and reoccurring characters. Which was huge for me since the only I ever did at the time was chicken scratch comics on foolscap and movies. Though for Cyn, it was going to be different! I would sketch them on a folded 8.5×11 paper (10.5×8.5) with a pencil. I never inked in any of the pages, nor was planning to. After a certain number of pages were done I got them scanned up with my old HP scanner and worked them up with Adobe Photoshop 6. I learned a whole lot during that process! I think all of my Photoshop skills came from this comic! (Boy did I make a helluvalot of a mistakes!)
After the pages were done, I set them up to be printed double-sided, printed them, folded them in half, stapled with a normal home stapler (which was probably the hardest part of the whole process). Toke all three comic, put a ribbon around them, met up with Cyn after he shift at work. Gave them to her, got a kiss on the check and that was that.
It was not till a few weeks ago when Cynthia re-entered my life and told me that she found the comics and though they were great! I went home and re-read them. I liked everything but the cheese factor- besides that, I was pretty proud of myself. A lot of it represented my relationship with Cyn at the time and with my friends.
Red Phoenix was obviously a representation of myself, where Ethan Tracy and Blaze where of my best friends who were really against my whole relationship with Cyn. It was always just me and her when it came to us. Our rings of friends never really mixed.
Anyway, the comic is kinda sorta… er.. just that, just kinda sorta. Yeah.
I love you Cyn.
written on: Thursday April 22, 2004
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